[photo courtesy Michelle Beauchamp at dVerse Poets Pub]
Everyday A Possibility
Life without regret
Opens the living to better futures;
Hope is not a resting place,
but a starting point - a cactus,
not a cushion, which encourages couch potatoes to rest on laurels;
No! hope can take wings
In flights of imagination,
Acting out hunches
Much like the poet, molding words
Into tangible responses to
Everyday possibilities
© gillenacox2024
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Today's mini prompt
Consider these lines of wisdom by American author, H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Be a cactus in a world of delicate flowers.”
“Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.”
Hope indeed, my dear Gillena. Love the way you work with this and your close especially:
ReplyDelete"Much like the poet, molding words
Into tangible responses to
Everyday possibilities." Lovely heartfelt writing...
Thank you for your appreciation Scott
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Enjoyed your poem!! Wondering if couch potatoes have laurels to rest on? LOL
ReplyDelete😊Happy you dropped by Helen
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Gillena, here I am posting a comment again. Woot Woot! Poets are nothing if not dealers in possibilities.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your appreciation Lisa
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Hope is not a resting place, but a starting point - a cactus...
ReplyDeleteYes this is so true. It is the starting point for the future!
Well done, Gillena.
Thanks for your appreciation Dwight
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I love the philosophy in your poem, Gillena, and especially these lines:
ReplyDelete‘Hope is not a resting place,
but a starting point - a cactus’
and
‘Much like the poet, molding words
Into tangible responses to
Everyday possibilities’.
Thanks for your appreciation Kim
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Beautifully said, Gillena! All the possibilities. . .💙
ReplyDeleteThanks for your appreciation Merril
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If doesn't lose hope, the possibilities are endless! Inspiring poem, Gillena.👏👏👏
ReplyDeleteThanks for your appreciation Jay
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This is so lovely and brilliant, Gillena!
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David
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Thanks for your appreciation David
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Hope indeed... but never cushion with a cacti
ReplyDelete😊Thanks for your appreciation Björn
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Lovely way to incorporate the quote and I love the idea of hope taking wings.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your appreciation Mish
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Poems referencing seem to abound recently, including my own - perhaps it is a response to the times we live in and yours is a great response Gillena...
ReplyDeleteThanks for your appreciation Frewin
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I like the inspiration of "everyday possibilities", Gillena!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your appreciation Lynn
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